After my taken seriously comment about having "lived disco", what music did you listen to in the heyday of your youth(one for the older lads really). Mine was Jazz funk, still love it now.
I can still fit Word Up into most sets and make it work Not as old but grew up on healthy dose of Mandre and Demis Roussos, I became or grew to love Disco which was adopted in my name Roots born early 70's. But afraid to say I lived the rave explosion which nearly killed me literally. BTW your the don on that genre, remember the FYNC chats, you showed me a few pointers.
Quote: OFFHand wrote in post #2I can still fit Word Up into most sets and make it work Not as old but grew up on healthy dose of Mandre and Demis Roussos, I became or grew to love Disco which was adopted in my name Roots born early 70's. But afraid to say I lived the rave explosion which nearly killed me literally. BTW your the don on that genre, remember the FYNC chats, you showed me a few pointers.
I actually met Demis Roussos s producer, when I was printing record covers(he came to pass the colour on his album sleeve). He said, that although Demis obviously was fat, that there was no need to make him look it, and therefore, he wanted his jacket to be black rather than navy(this wont mean a lot to non printers...)
I didn't really get into what was about when I was growing up because I'd had a decent(ish) upbringing musically from my old man, the first music I really got into was funk & soul, regardless of what era I grew up in and age isn't a factor in it when you like something, all the soulless crap my mates around me were listening to just spurred me on to keep searching for better music which was in the majority older music and thats when I found original breaks and started DJ'ing, that was my first love through school and then obviously once I started appreciating drugs for what they are I ventured into other things, house and garage but what I loved most was big beat of the time, it was vibrant and I used to go down to Brighton a lot where it was such a scene at the time, I got lost along the way getting heavily involved in the football and shifting gear and my weekends soon started to get taken up with everything else but I always kept doing nights, the transition from big beat went back to house and then into modern electro for a couple of years, it was a period looking back that although was a great time my head was a little shot, I started DJ'ing again then and playing all the stuff I grew up on in amongst milder modern electro and older electro funk and disco and boogie and getting back into the roots of it all and that's how it's been since. I'm glad you started this thread mac, I think sometimes and not just on here but a lot of older heads don't like younger lads knowing what they know, but the thing is you can't deny people good music, no matter how much you think you know. It's not an age thing. Unless you make it an age thing.
Quote: Turtle wrote in post #10 I'm glad you started this thread mac, I think sometimes and not just on here but a lot of older heads don't like younger lads knowing what they know, but the thing is you can't deny people good music, no matter how much you think you know. It's not an age thing. Unless you make it an age thing.
My parents were into country and western. The reason I said for the older lads, is because most probably(like myself) dont go out to listen to the tunes they used to love when they were young. I love my yearly Soul weekend down in Gt Yarmouth, its a good mixture of youngsters and us oldies(one of my mates who comes with us is 57). Nothing against you(cough) youngsters keeping the music alive, and I m always looking to hear tunes I never heard first time around..
Very late 80s and early 90s were spent raving up n down the west coast of Scotland so it was pretty much whatever was being played ....I've never really defined my preferred genre of music...I genuinely like some of most forms of music...bit of a pick n mix does me...some days it's 90s rave anthems...the next day it's classic FM.
Quote: maclufc wrote in post #12 My parents were into country and western. The reason I said for the older lads, is because most probably(like myself) dont go out to listen to the tunes they used to love when they were young. I love my yearly Soul weekend down in Gt Yarmouth, its a good mixture of youngsters and us oldies(one of my mates who comes with us is 57). Nothing against you(cough) youngsters keeping the music alive, and I m always looking to hear tunes I never heard first time around..
I'm just glad at 32 I'm still classed as a youngster, long may that live
Quote: Turtle wrote in post #10I didn't really get into what was about when I was growing up because I'd had a decent(ish) upbringing musically from my old man, the first music I really got into was funk & soul, regardless of what era I grew up in and age isn't a factor in it when you like something, all the soulless crap my mates around me were listening to just spurred me on to keep searching for better music which was in the majority older music and thats when I found original breaks and started DJ'ing, that was my first love through school and then obviously once I started appreciating drugs for what they are I ventured into other things, house and garage but what I loved most was big beat of the time, it was vibrant and I used to go down to Brighton a lot where it was such a scene at the time, I got lost along the way getting heavily involved in the football and shifting gear and my weekends soon started to get taken up with everything else but I always kept doing nights, the transition from big beat went back to house and then into modern electro for a couple of years, it was a period looking back that although was a great time my head was a little shot, I started DJ'ing again then and playing all the stuff I grew up on in amongst milder modern electro and older electro funk and disco and boogie and getting back into the roots of it all and that's how it's been since. I'm glad you started this thread mac, I think sometimes and not just on here but a lot of older heads don't like younger lads knowing what they know, but the thing is you can't deny people good music, no matter how much you think you know. It's not an age thing. Unless you make it an age thing.
I know what you mean Shaun. No one owns the music more than anyone else. I'm a firm believer 'music is for sharing'.
Exactly, and disco is the main music to share, the togetherness it brings no matter what your background, where you've been or how you've got there, no prejudice. Same as proper house which was just a continuation of disco, all IMO.
When I was a teenager I was really into soul and hip-hop. However the big thing was the Libertines. Over the years I saw all their various incarnations - from riots at the astoria to seeing pete doherty with (literally) 12 other people in the back of a pub. At the time that sene seemed really exciting and a bit mysterious. the other thing about it was it felt properly British. It got old pretty quickly though. I guess the big problem was it was all a bit grubby/seedy for me with far too many people downplaying their fortune in life. The big change came when I got old enough to start going to clubs. I think I was probably 16 when I first went 'out' and have fond memories of going to little clubs out east and dancing for hours on awful pills and speed. The most important dj for me was Laurent Garnier. Seeing him was a revelation to be honest, in the 6/7 years since I've seen a lot of great djs but few come close to touching him.
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then was well into the blackburn rave scene
